Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Vascular calcification (VC) is the most prevalent form of cardiovascular disease in this population and the attributable ...

Ca2+ dynamics affect many critical cellular processes. In the bag cell neurons of Aplysia californica, intracellular Ca2+ is elevated during a prolonged period of firing known as the afterdischarge. This consists of a fast ...

Short-term tensile strains that arise from local gravel indentations in municipal solid waste landfill base geomembrane liners are investigated with an emphasis on quantifying how strains are obtained and providing methods ...

The SNO+ experiment is a kilo-tonne scale liquid scintillator detector located at
SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. As the successor to the Sudbury Neutrino
Observatory, SNO+ will use linear alkylbenzene (LAB) as the ...

In image-guided surgical navigation, instruments tools are tracked by a position sensor and their locations rendered along with the patient's anatomy. Conventional methods require an invasive, time-consuming and potentially ...

The educational models applied, like the cultural demands of the job and career world, bring about unfair situations whose solution is society’s moral duty to deal with. It is not a question of who did not go to school or ...